ICGA response to ChessBase 4-part article

[Harvey Williamson]

First, an introduction letter from David:

Subject: The ICGA's rebuttal to Soren Riis's article on Chessbase.com re the Rybka scandal


This week Dr Soren Riis posted a four part article on Chessbase.com in a
somewhat belated attempt to defend Vasik Rajlich. Regular readers will
recall that Rajlich's actions led the International Computer Games
Association (ICGA) to find him guilty of breaking a crucial tournament rule,
as a result of which the chess program Rybka was stripped of its World
Computer Chess Champion titles and Rajlich was banned for life from ICGA
events.



Dr Riis gave his article a title to suggest that a miscarriage of justice
has taken place. The ICGA now responds with two rebuttal articles, one by
myself (as President of the ICGA) concerning some of the legalistic points
raised by Riis's article, and a robust detailed and thorough technical
rebuttal by Mark Watkins.


Everyone interested in the Rybka scandal should read both of these
rebuttals and then decide for themselves who and what they believe - Dr Riis
or the ICGA's investigation report.


Dr David Levy
President - ICGA

Here are two links, to read David's direct analysis, click the following link:
http://www.harveywilliamson.com/ICGA/DL ... th2012.doc

To read Mark Watkin's point-by-point evisceration of Soren Riis' article, click the following link:
http://harveywilliamson.com/ICGA/Riis3.pdf

[Harvey Williamson]

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/contr ... on-and-ban it is now on chessvibes

[mackgra]

I think now in order to bring balance to the argument published on chessbase by Dr Soren Riis, chessbase should also publish Dr David Levy's responce to the allegations made in Soren's ealier reports.

I see it unlikely that this will occur given that they failed to publish almost nothing of the Rybka/Fruit scandel when it occured.

I feel chessbase are hardly showing balanced unbiased reporting to the masses at the moment but we shall see if anything happens in the next few weeks.

[ricard60]

Here is a link on Rebel's web page,

http://www.top-5000.nl/Rybka.htm